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    1. It was a gamble, but then, I told myself, life is a gamble


    2. It was a dangerous gamble, he could be seriously injured, but there seemed to be no other chance at a meal on this plain this dark


    3. I hesitate for a moment over whether the red on the blind will match the red on the shelves and decide to take a gamble on it


    4. a gamble leaving the campsite but he had little


    5. My cousin used to go there or maybe just to gamble or visit his friends but right at this moment he is in our home country for recovery because last January he met an accident with his car


    6. Mr Black was next to him when his gamble of $30,000 evaporated


    7. I have already vowed to Sue that I shall not gamble


    8. a gamble, we decided to try the apartment we’d stayed at


    9. We may gamble on its restoration, counting on the possibility that the Plague shall return within our time


    10. It was time to take a gamble

    11. As the weeks went by, his gamble had proven a good one


    12. That was the gamble and the price they all paid for their duties, all of the unknowns that congealed in their minds and would manifest upon their homecoming


    13. The gamble paid off in the Bretons’ favor, as the way forward was amazingly devoid of any detectable life


    14. She took a gamble when she launched her own cable TV network which she describes as “mindful television”


    15. At least they had that as another possibility but he was not prepared to gamble on them finding water by chance


    16. gamble; he divided his smaller army and attacked first


    17. gamble, but it could happen


    18. He could only gamble on them slowing at the last few seconds


    19. Beware! If things continue as they are, especially post 2012, you will have made a bad gamble


    20. The only way to really win was to gamble more than he could afford to lose

    21. So many times he had thought to be cautious, going for a colour rather than a number, only for the balance to just slightly be against him with relatively small bets, until the final large stake for a big gamble to recoup the losses


    22. Creating this kind of interface was more of a gamble than a certainty


    23. Thesa considered the question for a time, not really sure himself why he'd chosen to gamble his life so recklessly


    24. I do not support this theory and see it as a gamble with your health


    25. Over the years these dissatisfaction mounted and Albert Gray began to gamble, the thrill of the chase replacing his deep feelings of inadequacy


    26. Willing to gamble my life to satisfy his thirst—and willing to end a thousand to keep me


    27. Dorian had said I wouldn’t be in any more danger directly once the puppets that had been set in motion had been dealt with, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to gamble my life on that


    28. However, when he encountered him at the downstairs bar a week earlier, George, woefully depressed over the breakup of his marriage, and drowning his miseries in bourbon, was in no mood to gamble, and far less to listen


    29. Hartle pointed his ship in the direction of the centre of the system and the planet in question, knowing it was a gamble


    30. His gamble paid off

    31. We don’t have the cash to gamble


    32. He admitted that most Church officials were divided on the issue, but agreed it was worth the gamble in plague times


    33. You are ready to gamble


    34. The majority believed that the picodust was worth the gamble for ultimate power—and ultimate knowledge


    35. Change is a gamble


    36. Or I could stay with her and not have kids – possibly anyway, that was the gamble


    37. Becoming a marketing force to be reckoned with led directly to a merger proposal from Procter & Gamble in 1956


    38. Right after Procter & Gamble purchased the Duncan Hines business, my father learned that all of the big shots at P&G took their vacations in New England, many at Cape Cod


    39. I was actually a Procter & Gamble employee since the company now owned the Duncan Hines Institute, but I reported to my father, which afforded me additional insights into “family business


    40. It was at the end of the summer, just before I was to become a graduate student at Cornell, when it became clear that Procter & Gamble wanted to keep only the best-selling Duncan Hines products, the cake mix line

    41. Procter & Gamble is known as a company that does its homework


    42. Procter & Gamble told my father they would allow him to maintain publication of these four books, as long as the Duncan Hines name was dropped and changed to a name of his choice


    43. Stewart Underwood recalls the massive effort and complexity of dismantling the guidebook program by Procter & Gamble


    44. It was a gamble, and I was given a chance to decline


    45. In 1956 Roy had taken an advisory position with Procter & Gamble, which had absorbed his Duncan Hines brand


    46. Consulting with Procter & Gamble under a non-compete contract as the vice president and director of Duncan Hines foods, he was able to watch one of the world’s great merchandisers at close hand


    47. “Confident that his portfolio of Procter & Gamble stock easily collateralized the loan he sought, he opened the point of compensating balances


    48. ” With Procter & Gamble stock as collateral, of course, which he said allowed him to borrow at low rates


    49. After he concluded the sale of the Duncan Hines Institute to Procter & Gamble, my father could afford better housing


    50. As explained earlier, when Park merged his Duncan Hines business with Procter & Gamble on a tax-free exchange of stock, he became a very large holder of the company’s stock










































    1. gambled with their lives, Commander


    2. I would place a bet on that, if Faeries gambled


    3. Dearling, you stated…” He went to the stenographer and glanced to the line she indicated, “that ‘you ate dinner at the same table and gambled with him, but hardly knew him,’ yet in this very room we have an eyewitness, Officer Segovia, who knows better


    4. Driving back to the Arthur's Pass turn off, LP gambled on getting over snow covered Alps


    5. With the ever-increasing demand for electric-powered vehicles of any kind, the company had gambled to a certain extent on the racing of magnetic levitation cars, for they would have spent a certain amount of cash on advertising and promotion anyway


    6. Unfortunately I gambled


    7. You did your work, maybe you also gambled a bit, and then you performed the same steps to travel back to your home in Malibu


    8. The Roman soldiers at the scene gambled over His clothes, as it seems that the


    9. It sort of replaced the inheritance her grandfather had left her which had been gambled and embezzled by her father


    10. But you did the smart thing and attended to your work in a timely manner, and gambled that we would judge your assistance to be worth this transgression

    11. "Because the unlucky fool gambled more silver on horse-fighting than he could afford to pay


    12. Once again, I gambled by doing nothing


    13. They arrived at the vacant warehouses only to learn that they gambled and lost


    14. In the casino they gambled on the success of


    15. One of the biggest things gambled upon at the


    16. One of the biggest things gambled upon at


    17. Sitting there while their future was being gambled upon


    18. She lay there, while the dew formed on the grass about her and the leaves overhead, and the men about the fire cursed, gambled and argued


    19. He gambled with them, putting up his girdle and sheath for a stake, won their money and weapons, and gave them back with a laugh


    20. I was horribly terrified but under the circumstances I gambled that the little girl was too sleepy to fully understand what was going on around her

    21. gambled on its ability to steer the resulting user traffic toward


    22. “But he gambled it away the next day,” Breckenridge noted


    23. he hadn’t gambled away into his vest pocket, hoping to save at least a


    24. pockets and was either gambled away or spent on women at the saloon


    25. Hitler had gambled and lost, and in losing, had not only sealed the fate of his armies in the west, but had also made defeat in the east inevitable


    26. While the PSP boasted superior graphics and power, following a trend established since the mid-1980s, Nintendo gambled on a lower-power design but featuring a novel control interface


    27. She had gambled and lost


    28. ’’ Replied Foulques, who then told her how Ann Shelton had gambled her life and had trusted Count Raymond with her disintegrator pistol


    29. made her play that stupid dice game that gambled with


    30. savings and money they could ill afford to have gambled

    31. They were always alert for the faintest sign that they had been noticed and they never gambled — with their own money that was


    32. There were young men with money who gambled but this one’s attention didn’t seem to be focussed on the cards


    33. gambled that the potential benefits of success outweighed the possible consequences of


    34. wheel and gambled with his own money as well as laundering Maiorescu's


    35. He had rightly gambled that a handpicked few of these


    36. He knew he had transgressed into territory generally prohibited to his station, but curiosity had been eating at him for some time and he gambled that the worst he could expect was probably a glare and a caution to restrict his attentions to matters that did concern him


    37. So he gambled, and faced up against the leader, knowing that the Goddess had not taken him this far just to see everything fall apart again


    38. Because of his arrogant nature and posh English accent, the other inmates targeted him and the guards hated the fact he had wasted and gambled away more money in two minutes that they could earn in a lifetime, so they turned a blind eye when he was bullied


    39. I gambled away the best gift I ever had given to me, I see that now


    40. In twenty years he spent and gambled his way through the bulk of the family’s wealth

    41. He gambled and lost


    42. He alluded himself quite openly to the current story how once, during some campaign (when in command of a brigade), he had gambled away his horses, pistols, and accoutrements, to the very epaulettes, playing monte with his colonels the night before the battle


    43. The eldest, a worthless fellow of a moody disposition, filled Sulaco with the noise of his dissipations, and gambled heavily at the club


    44. To find himself without money after a run of bad luck at monte in the low, smoky room of Domingo's posada, where the fraternity of Cargadores gambled, sang, and danced of an evening; to remain with empty pockets after a burst of public generosity to some peyne d'oro girl or other (for whom he did not care), had none of the humiliation of destitution


    45. There was hardly a family in Georgia who could not own to their sorrow at least one male member or relative who gambled, losing money, houses, land and slaves


    46. She could feel her wet petticoat and pantalets cold about her ankles, but she was beyond caring about the wreck of the costume on which she had gambled so much


    47. They drew their courage from the gambled everything on a Cause that was gone and were content to be proud of having past


    48. Rex seemed a rough, healthy, prosperous fellow whose name was already familiar to him from reading the political reports; he gambled in an open-handed but sensible manner; he seemed to keep reasonably good company; he had a future; Lady Marchmain disliked him


    49. She had gambled on the continuance of the


    50. She had gambled correctly that at least a few of her students would pounce on the opportunity to be visibly helpful and knowledgeable














    1. It went like that for five minutes, he's too young, too old, too shy, too shallow, he gambles, he drinks, he's married, he's married and has a girlfriend


    2. Yes, he gambles, but he will always cover his bets


    3. I make trades based on historical odds, not guesses or hopes or gambles


    4. It was a gambler's action, but his whole life had probably been made up of gambles; it could hardly be otherwise in the outback


    5. Traditional decision theory analyzes choices between uncertain gambles, the simplest of which are characterized by two possible outcomes and their associated probabilities


    6. If people naturally took into account their whole wealth when considering the offered gambles, they would not reject actuarially advantageous gambles as often as they do


    7. Such a difference could reflect incomplete adaptation to recent changes in wealth, so past experiences can matter: “A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise


    8. However, PT as described above pertains to one-off gambles


    9. Risk preferences in a sequence of gambles depend on how prior gains and losses influence loss aversion over time


    10. There is one interesting exception to caution after losses: if investors have a chance to fully recover a prior loss, they will accept gambles that they would normally reject

    11. People are willing to take on gambles they would not otherwise accept if these might permit them to make up for losses


    12. John gambles dreadfully, and always loses—poor boy! He is beset by sharpers: John is sunk and degraded—his look is frightful—I feel ashamed for him when I see him


    1. suddenly remembered the words of the gambling man in his dream, a dream that


    2. "What is it then? Gambling? Prossies? The Bookies? No, no, no, don't tell me


    3. at the far wall and pushing on past the gambling man, she had responded


    4. The gambling man


    5. I don’t have a business because that’s gambling with my


    6. Some time later mother and father rolled through the door in the middle of a heated argument about the pros and cons of holidays in the sun and gambling trips to Las Vegas


    7. the sun and gambling trips to Las Vegas


    8. Allcock stood on the platform as fellow travelers disembarked, some having reached their destination, and watched the hawkers descend on them, extolling the best hotels and restaurants, the finest tours of the city, the most affordable saloons, the shows, the gambling, and on and on


    9. It was a noisy place full of clattering gambling machines


    10. suppose you’d call it - for a gambling house in the Rue

    11. reputation of gambling houses), but Jean had no idea how


    12. He would do anything for her; even give up gambling


    13. The love he felt for her surpassed the thrill of gambling


    14. “Have you been gambling again?”


    15. “Only after you stop gambling


    16. No gambling! Deal?”


    17. Tom could see that continued gambling was impossible


    18. Tom successfully completed addiction therapy and promptly returned to gambling


    19. It was then and there that I first started the gambling


    20. Miss Pringle was duty supervisor, with a mop and a broom in each hand she swept all before her including the dust, cobwebs and infant children gambling round their elders

    21. I also know that your main source of income is organizing illegal gambling matches


    22. "Anyway, the gambling business only provided for us for a while, and eventually its ability to sustain us… died out


    23. Deacon Jones: My sin was stealing from the church because I had a gambling habit


    24. Deacon Jones: I could not stop my gambling


    25. His oftentimes stupendously good luck, for example, at gambling


    26. “My father used to warn me that gambling would land me in jail or the poorhouse


    27. It seems like gambling and gaming establishments would want to hire our students, so, ah


    28. Larocka was involved in everything from smelters and canning to tourism and gambling


    29. standards risen in recent years; a great, big house furnished with all the modern conveniences, purchasing or leasing a new car every couple of years, a television in every room, showcase furniture, expensive trips abroad, extensive wardrobes, routinely dining out, consumer products purchased and quickly discarded, electronic gadgets, exercise equipment, cell phones for each family member, casino gambling, so on and so forth


    30. He loved the good life, restaurants, dancing and particularly loved gambling

    31. I am reminded, however, of similar arguments related to legalized gambling and prostitution that never quite achieved their desired results


    32. He could buy a pound of marijuana for less than he paid for an ounce back home, beer was cheap, gambling and prostitution legal so every night meant another party


    33. Caroline didn’t care too much for gambling


    34. All the gambling paraphernalia: tables, roulette wheels, security equipment, everything had been sold, with only the bar operable


    35. He tolerated the boastful chatter for the opportunity it provided him to join in on high rolling gambling binges, where chips were handed him by the fistful


    36. It could be a gambling debt that he had been pressuring him about


    37. He hadn’t mentioned the Holiday Inn, but where Dearling encountered him and started demanding money hadn’t mattered and wasn’t included in the story he’d rehearsed: it was the gambling debt and threatened violence that was important


    38. The one who took me gambling – and to the whorehouse, remember? I told you


    39. He maintained that the man seen at the bar receiving money from him was a gambling machine salesman


    40. Nor could investigators confirm whether the man seen in the video entering the bar, and whom everyone agreed Walston paid, was a salesman of gambling machines or a hired killer

    41. The cancellation of a gambling debt, the videotape and statements of witnesses seemed to place him on the scene, but a call from an official at the US embassy threw all of that into doubt: they were told that Mr


    42. “She says, and her story has been independently confirmed, that you and he were intimate, went on a drinking and gambling binge together, and ended up in a brothel


    43. When those words came to mind, LP’s gambling instincts kicked in


    44. As she opened up his wallet to reveal a stack of $50 notes, she looked across at him and said “How much cash did we have when we walked into that gambling den?”,


    45. Before placing his first bet, he moved his gambling chips across in front of where he was standing


    46. Cock-fighting is a popular gambling sport, prevalent in the rural areas, but it is outlawed in Bangkok


    47. However, it is a recognised form of gambling and it appears from what I’ve heard to be harmless and has been a local favourite since the time of Phraya Mueang, in the Srivijaya Period


    48. There were very few homes and hardly any gambling


    49. I always had this idea I would gain my financial salvation through gambling


    50. I hated real estate, and I wanted to get out of it by gambling successes










































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